Arts and Culture

This year's Tallinn Music Week has been a showcase for some of the besieged country's most defiant music acts

Everyone loved Ennio Morricone’s film scores.. except the Oscar-winning composer himself, as a documentary reveals

There’s been a significant semiotic shift on planet Kardashian - the name of the show has changed!

Europe’s most visited tourist attraction had a troubled start to life

Charting the far-flung, uninhabited countries where English was the first language ever spoken

This Polish erotic thriller is such an oddity it will make you question whether it's actually a film at all

The problem with Emlyn Williams’ story – the talented, impoverished young lad in a mining town being recognised by a plucky teacher – is that it’s been done before and better

The Killing Eve star's stage debut is an important play, brilliantly acted, written and directed and with something worthwhile to say for itself

What appears to be the inevitable tragedy of Inger Stevens began long before she arrived in Hollywood and long before she left Sweden for the US

Following a former Canary’s flightpath to Krasnodar leads to an ominous sense of history repeating itself

Asparagus is a majestic vegetable and it remains one of the few whose coming into season is duly celebrated each year

In Erik ten Hag Manchester United have appointed a manager steeped in the finest Dutch traditions

Comedy is regarded as the lowest form of writing. It should be considered among the highest

Ivo van Hove, the Bowie collaborator with a taste for the spectacular, returns with a timely, bloody war epic at the Barbican

If the kings of the Neue Deutsche Härte are calling it a day Germany will lose one of its most paradoxically valuable assets

Audrey Diwan’s powerful abortion drama Happening has completed a clean sweep of major awards for female directors. But, she says, real equality is still far away

A definitive, exhaustive exhibition of the Renaissance artist is a once-in-a-lifetime blockbuster of a show

A new Netflix film is a worthy and sometimes dazzling new addition to the canon of horrifying ballet depictions

A play about Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole is hectoring and polemical rather than a serious examination of a character and her motivations

Bertie Carvel triumphs as Trump very much in spite of Mike Bartlett’s script, rather than because of it

Even inside his own monogrammed funeral casket the writer of Don Quixote remains an enigma

British lamb isn’t at its best in April, so try this recipe for roast hogget

A year on from the failed attempt to make European football a closed shop, the sport's administrators still want to tinker with the Champions League

The latest – and last? – novel by Michel Houellebecq, France’s most controversial writer, takes on politics

Two young musicians are demonstrating that classical music is perfectly able to have contemporary appeal among the young

Migration and livestreaming are helping the traditionally English game gain a foothold in mainland Europe at long last

New album Hair of the Dog captures something of our primitive selves who looked for expression of our hopes, desires and search for new beginnings through the sound of a beat

Little known today, Alexis Soyer was once hailed as the world’s greatest cook; feeding not just the rich but famine victims and soldiers too

In both opposition to war in Russia, and British attitudes to climate change, mass dissent will probably come too late to make any difference

It has been in use on the subcontinent since the 1600s and now has millions of native speakers

A new exhibition celebrates - and questions - the brief flowering of creativity in 1960s Lebanon

Netflix's new Amsterdam-set drama addresses the potential tedium of over-familiarity with sex, as well as its liberatory capacities